Merz depends on the federal government – and sees democracy in peril | EUROtoday

As of: December 13, 2025 2:45 p.m

Chancellor Merz desires to renovate the “House of the Federal Republic of Germany”. At the CSU get together convention, he additionally warned in opposition to home political disputes and referred to as for dedication to freedom, peace and an open society.

On the second day of the CSU federal get together convention in Munich, Chancellor Friedrich Merz and CSU chief Markus Söder emphasised the nice cooperation between the CDU and CSU. In his speech, Merz mentioned that the Federal Republic of Germany House didn’t should be rebuilt, however that it needed to be utterly modernized and renovated. But this activity can’t be solved in just a few days or even weeks. And: You should take individuals with you on this journey.

There is not any higher authorities than the black-red coalition, mentioned Merz. We may also get it carried out “with these Social Democrats here – we with them and they with us.” He has the agency intention of displaying that issues might be solved within the nation’s political heart. In view of present shifts within the worldwide construction, Merz additionally warned in opposition to getting slowed down in home political debates.

Merz: “Democracy is at stake”

“One day we will not be asked whether we have maintained the holding line in the German pension insurance for one year less or one year longer,” mentioned the CDU chief. Rather, the politicians who’re accountable in the present day will likely be requested “whether we have made our contribution, namely the maximum contribution that we could make, to maintaining freedom and peace, an open society, a market economy order in the middle of Europe.” Because all of this and democracy are at the moment at stake.

The Chancellor assumed that the total extent of the present adjustments will most likely solely be acknowledged looking back in a few years. In any case, there are greater than “normal fluctuations” in relationships or the financial system, mentioned Merz.

The Chancellor spoke of an “almost tectonic shift in the world’s political and economic power centers and we, the Germans, the Europeans, are right in the middle of this process.” Merz didn’t immediately deal with the continued negotiations to finish the Russian battle of aggression in Ukraine in his speech.